t4Seeding Metaphor

Try this process to discover metaphors that reflect your project!

  • For each Element below, click on a concept relevant to your project. 
  • You will land @ asknature.org with amazing Biological Strategies from Nature!
  • Explore the options, then record the Organism, Strategy and how your project might incorporate a similar strategy.
  • Creating metaphors is a free-flow mind activity...just go with first choices and see what happens!

OR...just explore AskNature.org, a free online resource of more than 1700 strategies developed by living things that achieve thousands of different functions.

Water How will your project unify, bring Nature and Human Nature together for a peaceful, collaborative, fair future for all of life?
Distribute Energy
Distribute Physical Resources
Protect
Distribute Information
Cooperate
Coordinate

Fire How will your project energise,  inspire action; accelerate a better future for all of life?
Reproduce
Generate/Pollinate
Sense/Detect
Navigate
Communicate/send signals
Feedback/Respond

Earth How will your project solidify, build firm foundations for growth and development?
Assemble/Attach
Differentiate
Capture, Absorb, or Filter
Regulate/Prevent
Maintain
Store

Air How will your project transform, change systems, mindsets and behaviours that foster regenerative, sustainable futures?
Cycle
Learn
Break Down/Expel/Remove/Deactivate
Process Information
Adapt/Optimise/Modify/Convert
Purify/Detoxify

Your Project SEEDS

Questions to help you plant in rich soil:

  • Water: What are the Unifying values and principles amongst your stakeholders?
    Values: What values will best support all involved to trust, take responsibility, and BE net positive to Nature in every thought and action.
    Principles: What are the 4 Elemental Principles that weave through everything?
    Eg. Water: Inter-dependence  Fire: Synergy   Earth: Ephemeralization  Air: Diversity
  • Fire: What is your Energising value proposition?
    How will you be perceived?
    Eg. By your family & friends; local community; neighbouring communities; govt; climate activists, deniers, the world, etc…
  • Air: What are the trimtabs for Transforming mind-sets and behaviours needed?
    Eg. Which systems must shift and to where, for our ecological future?
  • Earth: What are the Solidifying outcomes you are aiming for?
    Eg. What explicit, tangible outcomes will be created by 2030?